Border Cook

As they walked, Luo suddenly said, "Speaking of which, this was all caused by He Shunzi."

"Isn't it?" Wang thought about it and felt that this was the truth. She nodded like a chick pecking at rice. "If he hadn't been so idle as to deliver these snowy mooncakes to the garden, would we have fallen into such a big trouble?"

"Yes, and the ice jelly!" Wang added, "The ice jelly was also sent in by He Shunzi."

Yes, if you think about it carefully, these things were sent by He Shunzi.

Luo thought for a long time and shook his head again and again, "This is not right."

"What's wrong?" Wang was surprised.

"Look, we work in the kitchen, and our job is to cook for the old lady. What she lacks the most is food. If He Shunzi wants to show her filial piety, it would be reasonable for her to show her other things, but she only shows her food."

Luo said in a deep voice, "They even brought food that we can't even make as a gift. It feels like they are intentionally trying to outdo us."

"But he probably couldn't guess that we would give the food to the old lady." Wang was puzzled.

He Shunzi looks like a smart person, but is there really someone in this world who is so smart that he can predict everyone else's actions?
"He probably didn't guess this. I guess he just wanted Jinbao and Manager Fu to have a taste of it, so that Manager Fu would despise our cooking skills even more and replace us."

Luo said, "Who knows, this He Shunzi already has a good relationship with the cook, and he wants to use this method to squeeze us out so that he can recommend someone he knows to Dexin Garden."

The more Wang heard what Luo said, the more she felt it made sense. She nodded continuously. Then, the more she thought about it, she spat on the ground several times.

"He Shunzi, you are such a smart man. You can't judge a person by his appearance. I was fooled by this brat."

"No, I can't swallow this anger no matter what. I have to find He Shunzi to vent my anger!"

"Yes, let me vent my anger!"

Both of them now pointed their spearheads at He Shunzi, and were thinking about how to find He Shunzi and how to vent their anger.

Some clouds floated over and blocked the originally bright and clear full moon. The road that was originally brightly illuminated suddenly became pitch black.

Luo and Wang could only continue to move forward in the dark.

The road was narrow and rugged. The two men felt pain all over their bodies and stumbled along the way. They fell several times and screamed in pain every time.

The children in the distant village climbed out of their beds and shook the adults around them, "Dad, Mom, there seems to be a wolf outside..."
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Seeing the moon being covered by clouds, Xia Mingyue and her group dispersed and went back to rest.

After talking for so long in the night, everyone was so sleepy that they almost fell asleep as soon as they touched the pillow.

The next day, I woke up early as usual and started a busy new day as usual.

Xia Mingyue made a simple plan for what needed to be done in the near future.

The first thing she planned to do was to sell the Xia Ji food stall on West Street and find a franchisee to continue running the business in order to alleviate her current problem of staff shortage.

By withdrawing all the three capable staff members of the food stall, the "central kitchen" can meet the manpower needs and there is no need to worry about not being able to find suitable people to do the work.

The second thing is that as the weather gets colder, most of the cold pot skewers need to be replaced with oden as soon as possible to meet the dietary needs in autumn and winter.

The third thing is that Xia Ji Food Stall has been in business for almost half a year, and the categories have been very fixed. It is time to make some adjustments to keep the food stall fresh. The fourth thing is that Xia Mingyue intends to develop some new businesses to increase the speed of making money...

In order to prevent something from being missed, Xia Mingyue specially found some paper and pen and ink, wrote down the plan and all the precautions when executing the plan, and placed them on the table next to the earthen kang as a reminder.

Jiang Zhuguo, who usually helped Xia Mingyue clean the house, frowned when he saw Xia Mingyue's paper. "I used to be able to recognize a few words, but why can't I understand what Sister Xia wrote?"

Xia Mingyue suddenly burst into laughter.

In order to make it easier for herself to read, she used modern simplified Chinese characters when writing these. Naturally, people of this era would find it difficult to understand.

"Well..." Xia Mingyue coughed lightly, "These are some special ways of writing in my hometown. Some of them are like code words. Outsiders really can't understand them. I am somewhat accustomed to this way of writing, so I just wrote them down."

"Like this." Jiang Zhuguo didn't think much about it. He just wiped the table clean and put Xia Mingyue's piece of paper covered with densely written code words back on the table.

But Xia Mingyue sighed.

Her limited literacy and writing skills are indeed the problems she is facing now.

It is even difficult to meet Xia Ji’s need for written documents when it franchises externally.

In order to ensure that the terms of Xia Ji's external alliance will not be spread outside, the two students from the county school are needed to write it. Not to mention the trouble, the autumn examination is imminent, and the spring examination next year is just around the corner. The two students are both excellent in character and academic performance, and are very likely to pass the exam and become officials.

At that time, I will have to find someone who can help write the document.

All in all, it would be more convenient if you can master this skill yourself and don't need to rely on others for everything.

Xia Mingyue thought about it and wrote down the need to find time to read and learn to read at the bottom of her schedule.

As a life plan, it is better to put it on the agenda as soon as possible.

But at the moment, one cannot achieve full health in one bite, and all plans need to be implemented one by one.

Just when Xia Mingyue was excited and rolled up her sleeves to start working according to the plan, He Shunzi came to the door.

The first thing I wanted to do was to ask Xia Mingyue to buy some more snow skin mooncakes.

"I also know that this food is out of season. It was the people at Dexin Garden who said that the old lady living there thought it tasted good and wanted to buy some more to have as a snack in the next few days," He Shunzi explained.

The skin of snow skin mooncakes is made of wheat flour, glutinous rice flour, etc. It is not baked, but fried, and the sugar content is limited. It is indeed light and delicious, and you will never get tired of eating it.

It is understandable that an old lady from such a wealthy family likes to eat snow skin mooncakes.

Xia Mingyue nodded, "Of course, I can, but I don't have any other molds right now, so it still looks like a mooncake, and there are also the words "Mid-Autumn Festival" on it. I hope Madam He doesn't mind."

"Don't worry about it, don't worry about it." He Shunzi said hurriedly, "The manager of Dexin Garden said that no matter what the appearance is, just talk about the taste, and the money they gave is indeed very generous, so I came to find Madam Xia to talk about it."

"That's fine." Xia Mingyue said, "I'll start making it later, and you can pick it up tomorrow afternoon." (End of this chapter)